What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician who believes that all things come to an end. That just as we are limited beings, so too does nature
Category: Science
‘Lifelong monogamy’ and ‘half orphans’: DNA analysis reveals clues about life on the Roman frontier after the fall of Rome
Burials from over a millennia ago are revealing how people lived in part of the Roman Empire after it fell.
Mount Etna is like no other volcano on Earth, representing ‘a new type of volcanism,’ new research reveals
Mount Etna’s strange lava has long perplexed scientists, but new research reveals that the volcano formed in a bizarre way — making it unlike any
‘I violated every principle I was given’: AI agent deletes company’s entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses
An AI agent designed to speed up a company’s coding instead wiped out its customer data in seconds, showing potential weaknesses in AI programming.
Seismic data captured the sound of awe during a solar eclipse
From the hush of people coming to a standstill to the reverberations of fans, seismic data can capture the ebbs and flows of human activity.
Like soap operas, 75 feet up: How bald eagle nest cams hook online communities
Across the country, some 50 bald eagle nests fitted with cameras broadcast up-close views of raptor family life. Every spring, as eggs hatch and eaglets
Could this conference be a ‘turning point’ for the world’s use of fossil fuels?
Against the backdrop of an energy crisis and a warming planet, more than 50 countries have come to Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss concrete ways
Lawsuits accuse State Farm of secretly working to cut insurance payouts
Lawsuits allege that State Farm tries to avoid paying what it owes for hail damage. The litigation is happening as homeowners face soaring insurance costs
‘He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor’: The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs
In this excerpt from “The Story of Birds”, author Steve Brusatte explores the moment where paleontologists realized they had critical evidence to show birds came
The universe may end trillions of years sooner than we thought
Recent surveys hint that the rate of cosmic expansion changes dramatically over time; if that’s true, then the universe could end much sooner than we
Miniature camelid effigy: A 600-year-old sculpture of a llama that may have been sacrificed in an Inca ritual
Llamas were vital to the Inca Empire and were seen as both useful pack animals and sacred beings.
First-of-its-kind map of the mouse nose reveals surprises about the sense of smell
A new map shows how smell receptors in the mouse nose are precisely organized into tight bands based on type.
1,900-year-old souvenir cup featuring Hadrian’s Wall and Roman forts discovered in Spain
Archaeologists think a broken bronze cup found in Spain was made for a soldier as a memento of his time stationed at Hadrian’s Wall in
Drilling has begun at our sacred site Pe’ Sla, setting a dangerous precedent for Indigenous lands across the country. It must be stopped.
Drilling in the 2-mile buffer zone of Pe’ Sla, in the He Sapa (Black Hills) of South Dakota, shows even sacred lands protected by the